Forward-Deployed AI Security Engineer

Accenture; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 64,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life and long-term disability

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, delivering production-grade, AI-enabled security solutions and governance. You own outcomes: reduced attack surface, secure AI deployments, and measurable security posture improvements.

Within Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine, you’ll operate in 90-day delivery cycles, building security patterns and governance playbooks that scale across engagements and grow the Secure AI practice.

Qualifications

• 3+ years engineering experience with cybersecurity depth in at least one area.
• At least 1 year hands-on experience designing agentic AI solutions in production.
• 3+ years cloud security fundamentals across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Support AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex client environments, owning the full security design from assessment through deployment.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment.
• Support AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale across client workstreams.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack.
• Assist with AI governance framework implementation and risk management.
• Shape AI security strategy and governance operating models aligned to business outcomes.
• Define and publish reusable security patterns and accelerators for multiple engagements.
• Contribute to architecture design sessions and threat modeling workshops with client teams.

Skills

Engineering background

Security risk communication

AI security

Threat modeling

Cloud security fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, delivering production-grade, AI-enabled security solutions and governance. You own outcomes: reduced attack surface, secure AI deployments, and measurable security posture improvements.

Within Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine, you’ll operate in 90-day delivery cycles, building security patterns and governance playbooks that scale across engagements and grow the Secure AI practice.